Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived

1. Bills, Resolutions, & Letters
2. Hearings
3. On the Record
 

Shameless plugs (from Lara Friedman of the Foundation for Middle East Peace):

• +972 podcast featuring, “How BDS Became Such A Big Deal in American Politics” (Lara Friedman in conversation with Michael Omer-Man
• FMEP “Occupied Thoughts” podcast, “With US Elex on the Horizon, Where’s Isr-Pal Discourse Going?” w/ Lara Friedman & Peter Beinart

Watch Debra Shushan, APN Director of Policy and Government Relations, on the final episode of "The Spin Room."

Go HERE for an i24 News clip of Debra speaking about the Trump administration's role in guiding Israel into a one-state, apartheid-like reality.

Video of the full program is below.  If you prefer, go directly to Debra's commentary, at:

3:18 (Trump administration policy on Israel-Palestine)

7:53 (Land-for-peace, US-Israel relationship)

13:38 (Netanyahu's strategy of further Palestinian divisions)

18:04 (Israel-Diaspora relations)

Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived

1. Bills, Resolutions, & Letters - General
2. On the Record on H. Res. 246
3. Hearings
4. On the Record

Washington Jewish Week: "Israelis, Palestinians share their stories at ‘The Dove’" (July 26, 2019) Feature article on the APN sponsored "The Dove" storytelling event held July 22 in Washington... Ori Nir, director for communications and public engagement at APN, said one of the main goals of the program is to humanize people on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict... Read >>

American Prospect: "Disentangling from Israel" by Jo-Ann Mort, APN Board Member (July 23, 2019) A conversation with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh... Read >>

AP: "Israeli group says West Bank outposts boom under Trump" (July 22) This AP story all about Peace Now's illegal outpost report released on Tuesday was picked up by numerous media outlets, including the NY Times, Washington Post, ABC News, VOA, Ynet, and Israel Hayom. Read >>

Go HERE to read a summary of Peace Now's report: Return of the Outpost Method.

Go HERE to watch a short video of Peace Now's protest in the West Bank that coincided with the release of the report, including confrontations with the Israeli police.

Ha'aretz: At Least 16 Israeli Unauthorized West Bank Outposts Established Since 2017 (July 22, 2019) Shabtay Bendet, who heads the settlement monitoring team of Peace Now, said: 'The two-faced conduct of the government of Israel with regard to illegal settlements continues at full pace...The law enforcement authorities ignore the theft of land and legalize that which is illegal, without government approval as required and without public discussion of the matter." Read >>

SF Gate (San Francisco Chronicle): "Palestinians assail home demolition by Israeli forces" (July 22, 2019) This article about E Jerusalem home demolitions included reference to Peace Now's illegal outpost report. Read >>

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday July 25, 2019

 Quote of the day:

"The stay in the village was a lot of fun. According to the plan, the team changed every three months, but the guys did not want to go home. Everyone wanted to stay there. What could be bad? Beach, diving, amazing women."
--Former senior Mossad agent, Aharon (Araleh) Sharf, said about the diving resort in Sudan that the Mossad ran in the '80's as a cover for a base to secretly aid the exodus of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.*

APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday July 24, 2019
 

Quote of the day:

"We have to look at a pitcher that came from Grandma and Grandpa’s house and ask whom it originally belonged to.”
--Aya Gov, who created the 'Archive of Plunder' as her final project at the Bezalel Academy of the Arts after discovering that her grandfather came into possession of such objects during the war, said that because in Israel there is no organization that represents all of the Palestinians in the discussion regarding the return of stolen property from war, citizens have to ask who are the rightful owners of the objects.*

This episode features  stories that inspire hope for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, which was recorded live at APN's "The Dove" on July 22 in Washington, DC. This event is done in partnership with New Story Leadership (NSL), a Washington-based organization that brings to DC a small group of young Israelis and Palestinians to provide them with leadership tools needed to create social, economic and political transformation toward peace between the two peoples.